A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONFLICT SITUATIONS AND CHOICE OF LAWS IN THE NIGERIAN LEGAL SYSTEM AND OTHER LEGAL SYSTEMS

ABSTRACT Private International Law is that part of a law of a country which deals with cases having foreign element and usually comes into operation whenever courts are seized with such cases.The term ‘foreign element ’ means any system of law prevailing outside the lex fori, that is, the local law of the place where … Read more

EGBASE V ORIAREGHAN (1985); EFFECT OF NON EST FACTUM ON CONTRACT

  TABLE OF CONTENTS COVER PAGE………………………………………………………………………. i CERTIFICATION PAGE……………………………………………………………. iii ABSTRACT…………………………………………………………………………… iv TABLE OF CONTENTS……………………………………………………………… v DEDICATION………………………………………………………………………… vii ACKNOWLEDGMENT………………………………………………………………. viii TABLE OF CASES……………………………………………………………………. ix TABLE OF STATUTES……………………………………………………………….. xii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS…………………………………………………………. xiii CHAPTER 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.0.0: INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………….. 1 1.1.0: BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY…………………………………………….. 3 1.2.0: OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY………………………………………………….. 3 1.3.0: FOCUS OF THE … Read more

EXCESS OF INJUNCTION IN NIGERIA JUDICIAL SYSTEM

ABSTRACT Injunction serves as an order of equitable nature restraining the person to whom it is directed from performing a specified act or in certain exceptional circumstances cases requiring him to perform a specified act. Injunctions are judicial remedy by which a person is ordered to refrain from doing or to do a particular act … Read more

RIGHT OF EXPRESSION UNDER THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

ABSTRACT The entrenchment of Right of Expression as a fundamental human right in Nigeria could be traced to the 1960 Independence Constitution and those that followed it. The Independence Constitution of 1960 and the Republican Constitution of  1963 have provisions for the protection of fundamental human rights. The 1979 and the 1999 constitutions went further … Read more

OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OF MIONERAL RESOURCES UNDER THE SHARIAH AND NIGERIAN STATUTE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Introduction 1.1.0. BACKGROUND OF STUDY Since the commencement of oil and gas operation in Nigeria, the issue of ownership and control of the resources has been a sore point between the federal Government of Nigeria, the oil producing state and the oil producing communities. Different approaches have been adopted overtime to address the issue, but … Read more

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